Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education
Design and other fundamental topics in engineering are often isolated to dedicated courses. An opportunity exists to foster a culture of engineering design and multidisciplinary problem solving throughout the curriculum. Designettes, charettelike design challenges, are rapid and creative learning to...
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| author | Telenko, Cassandra Wood, Kristin Otto, Kevin Rajesh Elara, Mohan Foong, Shaohui Leong Pey, Kin Tan, U-Xuan Camburn, Bradley Moreno, Diana Frey, Daniel |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Telenko, Cassandra Wood, Kristin Otto, Kevin Rajesh Elara, Mohan Foong, Shaohui Leong Pey, Kin Tan, U-Xuan Camburn, Bradley Moreno, Diana Frey, Daniel |
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| description | Design and other fundamental topics in engineering are often isolated to dedicated courses. An opportunity exists to foster a culture of engineering design and multidisciplinary problem solving throughout the curriculum. Designettes, charettelike design challenges, are rapid and creative learning tools that enable educators to integrate design learning in a single class, across courses, across terms, and across disciplines. When two or more courses join together in a designette, a multidisciplinary learning activity occurs; multiple subjects are integrated and applied to open-ended problems and grand challenges. This practice helps foster a culture of design, and enables the introduction of multidisciplinary design challenges. Studies at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) demonstrate learning of engineering subject matter in a bio-inspired robotics designette (MechAnimal), an interactive musical circuit designette, and an automated milk delivery (AutoMilk) designette. Each challenge combines problem clarification, concept generation, and prototyping with subject content such as circuits, biology, thermodynamics, differential equations, or software with controls. From pre- and postsurveys of students, designettes are found to increase students' understanding of engineering concepts. From 321 third-semester students, designettes were found to increase students' perceptions of their ability to solve multidisciplinary problems. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1087642022-09-27T15:01:52Z Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education Telenko, Cassandra Wood, Kristin Otto, Kevin Rajesh Elara, Mohan Foong, Shaohui Leong Pey, Kin Tan, U-Xuan Camburn, Bradley Moreno, Diana Frey, Daniel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Frey, Daniel Design and other fundamental topics in engineering are often isolated to dedicated courses. An opportunity exists to foster a culture of engineering design and multidisciplinary problem solving throughout the curriculum. Designettes, charettelike design challenges, are rapid and creative learning tools that enable educators to integrate design learning in a single class, across courses, across terms, and across disciplines. When two or more courses join together in a designette, a multidisciplinary learning activity occurs; multiple subjects are integrated and applied to open-ended problems and grand challenges. This practice helps foster a culture of design, and enables the introduction of multidisciplinary design challenges. Studies at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) demonstrate learning of engineering subject matter in a bio-inspired robotics designette (MechAnimal), an interactive musical circuit designette, and an automated milk delivery (AutoMilk) designette. Each challenge combines problem clarification, concept generation, and prototyping with subject content such as circuits, biology, thermodynamics, differential equations, or software with controls. From pre- and postsurveys of students, designettes are found to increase students' understanding of engineering concepts. From 321 third-semester students, designettes were found to increase students' perceptions of their ability to solve multidisciplinary problems. 2017-05-09T13:49:28Z 2017-05-09T13:49:28Z 2015-11 2015-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1050-0472 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108764 Telenko, Cassandra; Wood, Kristin; Otto, Kevin; Rajesh Elara, Mohan; Foong, Shaohui; Leong Pey, Kin; Tan, U-Xuan; Camburn, Bradley; Moreno, Diana and Frey, Dan. “Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education.” Journal of Mechanical Design 138, no. 2 (November 2015): 022001. © 2015 ASME International https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9886-7512 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4031638 Journal of Mechanical Design Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf ASME International American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| spellingShingle | Telenko, Cassandra Wood, Kristin Otto, Kevin Rajesh Elara, Mohan Foong, Shaohui Leong Pey, Kin Tan, U-Xuan Camburn, Bradley Moreno, Diana Frey, Daniel Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education |
| title | Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education |
| title_full | Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education |
| title_fullStr | Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education |
| title_short | Designettes: An Approach to Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Education |
| title_sort | designettes an approach to multidisciplinary engineering design education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108764 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9886-7512 |
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